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Issue 13 | Xmas 2007
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FIRST LOOK!
REVIEWED!
LOST
Yes, weve
found it!
DEUS EX 3
Deathmatch monster unleashed!
+ WIANLAPNC!
UNRE
Killer rig
inside
MASSIVE REVIEW!
Peter Hines
on Fallout 3
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The new conspiracy is

unveiled at last...
Theyre back to save the
day and wreck the city!
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World War II goes to Hell

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Import Nights
Praise the lowered
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BROTHERS IN
ARMS HELLS
HIGHWAY
EXCLUSIVE
INTERVIEW!
SUDDEN
STRIKE 3
The WWII tactical

masterpiece rated...
The dysfunctional duo

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Its a month of exciting announcements as
we fast approach the end of 2007, and 2008 is
going to be an exciting year for PC gaming with
the likes of Ghostbusters, Rainbow Six Vegas 2
and Deus Ex 3 to name just a few of the hottest
new titles. In this issue we bring you the real
story on all of these, plus the latest reviews with
the deathmatch delights of Unreal Tournament
3, the tactical tests of Sudden Strike 3 and the
hitman antics of the strange but deadly Kane &
Lynch. Plus weve braved the radioactive wastes
to bring you the inside info of Fallout 3 and
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Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights
Lost
Stranger
Deus Ex 3
Kane & Lynch
Ghostbusters
Painkiller Overdose
Rainbow Six Vegas 2
Goldeneye 2D
Brothers in Arms:
Shell Blast 3
Day of the Bobteds
Hells Highway
Fallout 3
Move or Die
Viva Pinata
Race Driver GRID
Sudden Strike 3
Dead Space
Ghostbusters
Sudden Strike 3
Call the union reps - its war! PAGE 25
Give them a call right now! PAGE 10
Brothers in Arms
Hells Highway
Cant we take Heavens
Cyclepath, sarge? PAGE 13
Kane & Lynch
The weirdest heroes

weve ever seen... PAGE 30
DEUS EX 3
Conspiratorial
whispers.
Shhh! PAGE 6
VIVA PINATA...
Sweet!
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MEET THE TEAM
Probably the best games writers on the planet
Steve Hill
Struck suddenly and without

warning for the third time.
Lee Hall
Got Lost, called Ghostbusters and

had a day of sex. Sorry, Deus Ex.
Richard Melville
Denied his Need for Speed and

got Juiced instead.
Ian Morris
At last got his green ngers on

Viva Pinata. But can he grow up?
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Publisher: Ubisoft
Developer: Ubisoft
Montreal
Heritage: Far Cry and
Splinter Cell series
Link: http://lostgame.
us.ubi.com
ETA: Spring 2008
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Battle foes such as

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Found it! It was down the back of the sofa...

Whats the story?
Youre on a plane and just as youre about to tuck into your rubbery
scrambled egg when the darned aircraft only goes and crashes. Youre left
with egg on your face, stranded with a ramshackle bunch on a tropical
island desperate to get home. Weirdness ensues with polar bears, rival
groups and lashings of Prisoner-style paranoia.
Its teatime back

at camp
quuuuiiiiiick!
What do we know?
Like everyone else, unfortunately not a hell of a lot. Which is worrying

considering that Lost colon the videogame was announced 18 months
ago Its the game of the hit TV series we all love to pretend we
understand. In this (puke-inducing genre tag alert) action adventure
game you confront your own personal demons, as well as those lurking in
the bushes, apparently. Gameplay includes puzzling weve seen one
where you follow clues scrawled on tree trunks (thatll be adventure, then) and battling foes such as the smoke monster (bingo action).
Theyre bats mate.
And theyre
nowhere near you.
Get a grip.
When do we get more?
It needs to be soon or well get all cynical

and fear this is a shameless cash-in on the
Lost brand. Come on Ubisoft, show us what
youve got
Anything else to declare?
Lost stars super-hotty Evangeline Lilly. When

the toned Canadian-born cutie isnt on the
set of her hit ABC show, she hangs out with
friends and downloads online pdf
magazines. Oh about the game? Sorry,
thats all weve got.
Do you think my
boiler needs
replacing?
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Augmented people enter from the back
Publisher: Eidos
Developer: Eidos Montreal
Heritage: This is EMs rst
full game project. Nice easy
start, then
Link: www.deusex3.com
ETA: 2009
Whats the story?
After telling us it will denitely happen, Eidos have teased us royally with a
trailer for the forthcoming cyberpunk sequel, Deus Ex 3.
What do we know?
Is that a
box of arms?
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Love, peace and

harmony have
gone out of the
window.
Democracy
now theres an
idea for a game.
The game is clearly set in an era of massive political turmoil. A freeze-frame

analysis of the teaser trailer reveals images of mass protest, segregation and
violence could this be The Collapse which followed the original Deus Ex?
A movie theatre tells folks modied with bio-technological implants
designed to enhance their physical attributes, to use the back door, another
sign is emblazoned with an unwelcoming slogan aimed at augmented
people. Its not a good time to be modded.
But there are hints at the ultimate triumph of modied humans, with the
slogan Who we are is but a stepping stone to what we can become, and
the central image of an augmented foetus, a symbol of survival.
In terms of gameplay theres a red light for those who fear a dumbing
down development trajectory for a series that began as a sublime RPG/FPS
hybrid and was followed up by a far cheesier oering Deus Ex will use the
Tomb Raider: Legend engine.
Mass protest,
segregation and
violence
Booming
voiceover and
arty, noncommittal visuals
yep, must be a
teaser
When do we get more?
The game is on a 24-month

development cycle, so expect
hearsay and speculation for a
while yet.
Anything else to declare?
The brains behind Deus Ex,

Warren Spector and Harvey
Smith, will not be involved with
Deus Ex 3 after splitting with
Eidos in Spring 2007.
Thats what would

happen is C3P0 got in
on with Princess Leia.
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Tom Clancys Splinter

Cell: Conviction
Publisher: EA | ETA: TBC 2008
More golden nuggets of

gaming glory to come
Black Prophecy
EA has secretly had this space survival horror in

development for a full year, and as a result the
recent rst glimpses already reveal a polished, and
rather gory, thriller. When a deep space mining
ship loses contact with Earth, the guys back at HQ
fear the worst. But can they have imagined the
striken crew would wind up battling hideous
creatures with modied mining kit. Probably not.
Football Manager
2009
Space
October Dead
TBC 2008
SUMMER
2008
Black Prophecy
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Winter
Summer
Elite IV: The
Empire:
Total
Next
Encounter
SPRING
November
War
2008
Speedball 2 Summer
Avatar
February 8
May 2009
Tom Clancys Rainbow
Tom Clancys Prototype
Postal III
Six: Vegas 2
Splinter
Cell: June 27
TBC
March 28
Conviction
March 1
Tom
Clancys Air
Turning Point:
Combat
Fall of Liberty
The Wheelman TBC (To Be
Clancied)
February 2
June 27
Publisher: Ubisoft | ETA: March 1
Tom Clancys Rainbow

Six: Vegas 2
By the looks of it Black Prophecy

has got everything. Its an MMO
with resource management
elements, massively mutliplayer
battles and individual quests to
keep you busy while youre lost in
space. But will this epic prove to be
just a bit too epic for its own
good? Who cares? This game looks
better than Paris Hilton viewed in
night vision mode.
ON
THE
RADAR
Dead Space
Publisher: 10tacle | ETA: Winter
WINTER
2008
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What is it with this guy? He should release an

autobiography called Tom Clancys being
tom Clancy by Tom Clancy. Besides, the latest
Splinter Cell needs no help to cause a stir.
Conviction remains an enigma just a few
short months from release but promises
political intrigue and edgy urban stealth
action. Were gasping to see more.
Publisher: Ubisoft | ETA: March 28
There it is - a solitary and decidedly purple

screenshot to conrm that Rainbow Sixs
sexy Vegas story arc will be followed up with
a sequel. Number two promises new tactical
possibilities and an intense single player
campaign as well as multiplayer action.
Turning Point: Fall of Liberty

Publisher: Codemasters | ETA: February 2
Crafted by the good folk behind Call of Duty: Finest

Hour, Turning Point asks what if Churchill was killed
when that cab knocked him over in 1931? Clearly
the boys at Spark Unlimited had just seen The
Buttery Eect, because according to their alternate
history Europe fell to the Nazis, as did the States.
Time for some rst-person shooter resistance
battling, wethinks...
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Race Driver: GRID

Publisher: Codemasters | ETA: Summer
Empire:
Total War
Publisher: SEGA | ETA: Summer
Not to come over all bulldog spirit on your
asses, but for a series developed in a nation
with arguably the nest naval tradition going
its criminal that Total Wars sea battles have
been pretty much non-existent. Not so with
the tally-ho riddled Empire, set during that
great era of expansionism, the 18th century.
The most modern Total War yet will boast
epic sea battles and more political intrigue.
GRIDs mission statement seems

to be to put the fun back into
racing. Aston, real-life tracks,
erce AI opponents and
spectacular crashes are just some
of the treats in store for petrol
heads. This could be a great new
direction for TOCA.
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Slimed, or just
short of tissue?
HANDS ON
Publisher: Pub Vivendi
Developer: Dev Terminal
Reality
Heritage: BloodRayne
Link: www.
ghostbustersgame.com
ETA: Late 2008
Busting makes me feel good

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efore Buy was kicking the living haunted by all manner of ghoulish
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crap out of vampires, and before enemies, including the iconic Slimer a
us what you
Derek Acorah was rst
green hovering slobber monster with a
think of
possessed
by
an
angry
child
chimney
twisted sense of humour.
Ghostbusters! sweep, the Ghostbusters were the
Youll play a parapsychology
hottest paranormal ticket in town.

For no good reason other than the
fact they can, Vivendi is resurrecting
the franchise 23 years after the original
movie starring Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray
and Sigourney Weaver.
As in the movie duo, Ghostbusters
the Video Game is set in a New York
Youll don the

boiler suit of a raw
recruit
A library shot. Or
New Yorks famous
library.
professor on a mission to rid the city

that never sleeps of a threat thats in a
permanent state of slumber that is to
say, dead guys.
But you wont be a member of the
original cast. Instead youll don the
boiler suit of a raw recruit and have to
get used to facing building-sized
Ham and red wine always a winning

combination.
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Having a ball with

Slimer in the
ballroom.
Ghostbusters continued
enemies with an array of weapons
and gadgets which are yet to be
revealed by tight-lipped publishers.
To win the good ght youll use
back-mounted devices that emit a
stream of power that paralyses
your paranormal quarry.
Ghosts can then be trapped
and safely removed. Think
of the Ghostbusters
service like Rentokil, only
the bugs that they
exterminate are already dead.
This, then, should be a welcome
jaunt down memory lane (via Fifth
Avenue and the Public Library).
While for young whippersnappers
born after the eighties,
Ghostbusters should be a warm
introduction to a slapstick world,
prime for videogame conversion.
GHOSTBUSTERS:
THE OTHER
VIDEO GAME
There have been a handful of Ghostbusters

games, but the most iconic was the Commodore
64 originally released in 1987.
Look at it this game is a museum piece, but a
variety of viewpoints for ghost-catching sections
and map sequences, as well as driving sections
made this a tour de force for the time.
And oh how we loved to sing along to the
Ghostbusters theme tune on the loading screen.
When theres
something strange in
your neighbourhood,
who you gonna
call?...
My word that
looks like fun.
pile of Oscars. It was funny, slapstick

and twinkling with adventure. Treated
properly it could be one of the most
vibrant games of 2008. The game will
denitely glitter with star quality.
Original cast members Harold Ramis,
Ernie Hudson, Bill Murray and Dan
Aykroyd are all on the voice roster.
Publisher Vivendi is promising the
game will capture all the fun of the
movie incarnations and have hinted
that it will be a sequel to the second
movie in the same timeline.
Early gameplay footage reveals a
third-person action adventure with set-
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Ghost writer
Harold Ramis, Ernie

Hudson, Bill Murray
and Dan Aykroyd are
on the voice roster
Ghostbusters was written by Dan

Aykroyd and was nominated for a
piece battles against the likes of the

giant Marshmallow Man set against the
backdrop of Manhattan. The action is
frenetic, which your struggles to cage
your rampant foes made all the more
chaotic by highly interactive scenery.
Tables tumble, plates y and windows
smash as you blast at Slimer and Co.
Ghostbusters twisted laughs are
also apparent. At one stage in the
snatched preview footage our hero is
faced with a weeping child who then
erupts in a ball of purple ectoplasm to
become a rabid enemy. Curse those
deceptive creatures of the night
HOW COMPLETE?
ANTICIPATION?
90%
65%
They just have to get this great franchise right
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They damaged a perfectly
good cycle, but that
postman got the message.
HANDS ON
Publisher: Pub Ubisoft
Developer: Dev Gearbox
Heritage: Brothers in Arms
series, 007 Nightre
Link: www.
brothersinarmsgame.com
ETA: February 29
The US Army
specialising in
overkill since 1941.
The Allies are in Dire Straits
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alk about itchy trigger ngers.
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months,
then publishers Ubisoft pop
think of
their
heads
over the parapet to
Brothers in
announce
a
delay in release
Arms!
HH has been hauled back to base

some extra training before its thrown
into the crowded WWII theatre of
engagement. Mind you, its shaping up
to be one hell of a soldier.
The game follows the brave boys of
the US 101st Airborne Division who aim
to smash a beeline towards Hitler
and bring the bloodiest conict in
history to a swift conclusion.
Youll squeeze your bloated
feet into the boots of Matt Baker
and Joe Hartsock for Operation
Market Garden, a mission to o
the Nazis by Christmas 1944.
Of course, the history books tell us
the war didnt end in Europe until
1945 as Hitler sent waves of his
nest troops to repel the Allies,
making for some of the most
intense and therefore game-
Camaraderie, humanity
and hope punctuate
bitter battles
Fight like a man. Or
hide like a baby.
friendly - battles of the bloodiest

conict in history.
Physically Better
The world of BIA: HH is unnervingly

realistic. The remarkably physical
environment responds to your every
shot, no matter how wayward.
Walls become scued and pocked
as your bullets skid towards targets in
mounted machine gun emplacements.
Panels on vehicles will dent as you lay
down support re for pals legging it
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across open ground. And enemies will

crumple in crimson heaps as you
jackhammer rounds through imsy
fences.
The engagements you battle
through are all real and the
environments you tear up with your
authentic weapons are faithful to the
real settings. Eindhoven, for instance
has been recreated from photos and
records to look just as it did back in
1944.
But its the people, not the places,
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you encounter that give Brother in

Arms its true personality. Moments of
camaraderie, humanity and hope
punctuate bitter battles where the
shrapnel ies and enemy troops just
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keep coming.
You can lob ammo to comrades,
patch them up when theyve taken a
knock and team up with your fellow
ghter in a game that manages to
celebrates fraternity as well as
individual grit.
As a squad leader you command
your troops with a simple couple of
clicks. If youre sneaking up on
foes you can set your groups
They damaged a perfectly

good cycle, but that
postman got the message.
Five guys chilling

out in the middle of
a warzone. What
can possibly go
wrong?
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posture to stealthy and then instruct

them to take up positions, lay down
supporting re or simply let rip.
As ever in this sumptuously
presented series, theres a balance
between strategic play and balls-out
action, though that balance is rmly
weighted in the direction of the latter.
The tactical element of gameplay
amounts to adhering to the basics of
combat theory outanking
opponents, following wounded
enemies to locate their comrades and
I know this great place

for a vacation
Brokeback Mountain.
Maybe we should check it
out when we get home?
avoiding head-on engagements with

numerically superior foes.
The tool with which see through
your tactical decisions be it bazookas
and sniper ries, intelligent squad
members or your own brass neck
ensure the game looks set to be
frenetic and compelling.
Brothers In Arms: Hells Highway
may have been delayed until February,
but on all the evidence to date it will
prove to be well worth the wait.
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ANTICIPATION?
98%
88%
Has Medal Of Honor: Airborne xed in its sights
Bricks and mortar.
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Boys, where gonna

have something
decent to roast on
the re tonight
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Publisher: Bethesda
Softworks
Developer: Bethesda
Softworks
Players: One
Certicate: TBA
Features: Free-roaming
post-apocalyptic
playground,
a huge cast of AI characters,
strategic battling, and Liam
Neesons voice.
ETA: Autumn 2008
FALLOUT 3 Where theres

humanity, theres hope
The makers of Oblivion become the remakers of strategy masterpiece Fallout.
Bethesdas Peter Hines explains why we should be slobbering with excitement.
Yes, that is a Fallout 3

T-shirt hes wearing.
Developers are poor.
ut in the Wasteland life is harsh,

so why did your father choose
to swap the comfort of his
post-apocalyptic bunker Vault 101
for a nuclear tipping ground? Daft old
bugger. On the upside, if pops hadnt
legged it we would be getting all
excited about Fallout 3, would we?
Oblivion and Fallout have
enormous reputations and a
vociferous following. Surely
youre going to really annoy
some of the fans... does that
make free-thinking
development virtually
impossible?
If you were to spend a lot of time
worrying about who youre going
to please, and how much,
absolutely. But one thing weve
learned over the years is
that if we work really
hard on pleasing
ourselves and
making a game that we really enjoy

playing, we can nd some other folks
who will enjoy playing it too.
Morrowind and Oblivion certainly bear
that out. No matter what you do or
who you try to please, somebody else
wants something else and will be
annoyed. So well stick to what we can
control and leave the worrying to
someone else.
Dropping a nuke on
a devastated
wasteland. Now
thats just a waste.
When its your turn

on the slide, its
time to nuke
anyone in the way!
Fallout 3 pays
homage to the visual
style of previous
games. See.
Youre eectively performed a

180-degree turn by reviving the
post apocalyptic universe of
Fallout after the fantasy world of
Elder Scrolls. How many of the
knee-shattering weapons were
born of your frustration
at wielding virtual blades for all
those years?
Since we still havent talked about all
the dierent weapons yet, I can talk
about two of my favorites. I like the Fat
Man and, honestly, I like the good old
Chinese Assault Rie.
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Fallout 3 looks to be a very dark

game. Where will the glimmers of
hope come from? We assume that
there are plenty of moments of
trademark dark humour in there...
The glimmers of hope come from the
people you meet. Where theres
humanity, theres hope people have
dreams and aspirations. And you can
I think Im gonna be
sick....
The Britain In Bloom

inspector was not
impressed with
Springvales eorts.
Interview continued
Fallout 3 is built on the
technological platform of
Oblivion. How similar will the
games feel?
We certainly build on some of the
technologies weve developed, but
thats dierent than how the world
looks and feels. I dont know if I could
quantify how much additional
development time we spent on the
core engine. Its a dierent code base
that uses some stu we had done for
Oblivion, as well as new things that
have been created specically for
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squash those dreams, or help people

fulll them. Denitely plenty of dark
humor, but I dont know if thats where
Id look for glimmers of hope.
Is Fallout 3 an action game, or a
strategy game?
Its a role-playing game. First. Last.
Always. Any role-playing game always
absorbs bits of other genres in terms of
how it presents combat or what the
player is doing, but it is a post nuclear
role-playing game to its core.
The VATS system

see it /is/ a
strategy game
They have no
right being super
rich. All they did
was say I love toy
soldiers
Tell us a little more about the
V.A.T.S. system.
V.A.T.S. allows you to use your
characters action points to target
dierent enemies or body parts in a
paused mode. As I said above, its a
role-playing game, not a shooter, so we
want to reward the role-player and not
the fast twitch player.
Players can expect dierent
outcomes if they tread a neutral
path in Fallout 3. Will you be
tripping conservative players up
with disproportionately good/evil
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their own business?
Yes, whether your karma is good, evil,
or neutral, youll experience dierent
things. At one point in the game, if
youre evil, the good guys try to kill you,
or if youre good the evil guys try to kill
you. If youre neutral, everybody leaves
you alone. So there are drawbacks and
advantages for neutral just as there are
for good and evil players, and weve
spent a lot of time working on the
gameplay options and outcomes for
that gray area in between as
sometimes the most interesting
choices can be found there.
Are you getting the community
involved in the development?
We continue to interact a lot with the
fan community at large, but since
theres a lot about the game that isnt
known, its more about having a
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than trying to react to any specic

feedback on an aspect of the game.
Describe moments when you just
thought - this is really cool...
There have been quite a few this is
really cool moments for me over the
past couple of yeas, things like my rst
really good ght in V.A.T.S., the rst time
I saw a Brahmin in the game, the rst
time I shot a Fat Man
Finally, I dont want to leave The
Vault - it looks scary out there...
Have you put some mah-jong mini
games in Fallout 3 for people like
me who are too terried to step
outside?
You can denitely avoid combat in
many situations depending on the
character youre playing. But, its
denitely a dangerous world out there
and, unfortunately, youre going out
there whether you like it or not.
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VIVA FOREVER
Is it wrong to love gardening?

Dear PCGZ, I know youre not really agony aunts, but
Im feeling lost and confused and need reassurance.
You see, Im really the worlds biggest shooter fan.
Theres nothing I love more than dropping terrorists in
Call of Duty 4, stomping Locusts in Gears of War and
fragging friends in UT3. Im a mean, bloodthirsty, killing
machine who laughs in the face of RTS, yawns at RPG
and spurns sports games. But having been forced by
my girlfriend to try Viva Pinata, Im now hooked and
Ive turned into the gaming equivalent of a panellist on
Gardeners Question Time. I just nished discussing the
breeding patterns of Jameleons over dinner. Help me!
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I LOVE RAINBOW SIX VEGAS but I think
that setting the next R6 game in Vegas
again is just lazy. Surely an all-new
location would have been much more
appealing? Vegas was great, but weve
been there, done that. What about a
European vacation for the squad? With
Call of Duty 4 encroaching with
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opinion. Hopefully Ill be proved wrong,

but I have to say Im worried!
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point, but if you remember, there
was unnished business at the end
of Rainbow Six Vegas that means
that the sequels plot (if you really
care about plot in R6) will have to
pick up where it left o - in Vegas.
And as the real Vegas seems to
change constantly, were condent
that there will be many new and
exciting locations.
CRYSIS OF CONFIDANCE
THANKS FOR A REALLY FUNNY but
informative Crysis review last issue. I
rushed straight out to buy it and Ive
now nished. The trouble is that I want
more! What a great shooter and it really
shows o my new high-spec PC. Will
there be a sequel, or are the team
moving on to new things after this
release?
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Peter, because the head of Crytek
has recently announced that Crysis
is intended as an epic trilogy of
shooters, so you have two more to
look forward to. Of course, youll
probably need two more PC
upgrades to play those, as even
better graphics are promised, close
to photorealistic movie quality!
> PCGZ says Youre beyond help. Why dont

you just get married and buy an allotment too?
GOOD GEAR!
ID JUST LIKE TO SAY THAT I have been
reading your mags for a few months
now and I think that for free they are
excellent. However someone needs to
have a word with Ian Morris about his
review for Gears of War on the PC as
reading it; it doesnt seem as if he has
played the game. In my opinion it was
the best game ever when it came out
on the 360 and although it has dated a
little in all areas it still is the best
shooter ever made (in my opinion). I
nd myself wishing that COD4 and
Crysis featured the stop and pop
gameplay (that Ian doesnt seem to like)
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world of the
Pinata addicts.
and that would make these games

even better. Maybe you should ask Ian
if there was someone with a machine
gun shooting at him whether he would
run towards them like a maniac or dive
behind some cover and gun down the
SOB while he is trying to reload.
> G Owen
> PCGZ says Youre right, he
did duck when we shot at him!
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Unreal Tournament 3
A veritable killing spree, or just another minor update?
Publisher: Midway
Developer: Epic Games
Heritage: UT 2004, Gears
of War
Link: www.
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with a simple statement: if
then its a recycled version of two old
youve liked an Unreal
classics, Onslaught and Assault. Taking
Tournament before, youre going to
place across a good variety of maps,
love this one. A distinctly evolutionary,
each team is in control of a core, which
rather than revolutionary progression
is protected by a shield. By capturing a
of the series, UT3 is pretty much an
number of nodes across the map, you
identikit version of the previous games, have to build an unbroken chain to
just with much prettier graphics, a lot
more maps, and a tad more lag. But
well get to that later.
The latest instalment in Epics
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seen something of a renement for
version number three, and as such, a
number of modes have been trimmed
o, leaving the game with just six core
game types; Deathmatch, Team
Deathmatch, CTF, Vehicle CTF (does
exactly what it says on the tin), Duel
and Warfare.
Warfare is the sole new addition to
We wouldnt get too used

to seeing this screen. With
AI like the single player
games, you wont be
winning too often.
An identikit version
of the previous games,
but with much
prettier graphics
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storyline, but disappointingly,
theyre pre-rendered!
All the best weapons

from the series
return, like the
minigun, seen here.
They would sneak

romantic moments
alone in the armoury.
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Capture the ag is fun

- vehicle capture the
ag is better. You get
hoverboards in that.
UT3 continued
the enemys core, which will bring
down their shield, letting you blow
their core to smithereens.
With the addition of a special orb,
which lets you instantly capture an
enemys node, Warfare maps can be a
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blast, and theres often a huge digital
tug-of-war going on, as each team
strives to push the other back and
capture the relevant points on the map.
Of course, as each team can also simply
destroy the other teams nodes, thereby
sabotaging their chain, theres a lot of
strategy to each Warfare game, as you
decide whether to defend your core,
take out a node, or simply use your
teams orb to go and instantly take one
over. Theres brains and brawn here.
But before we convince you Warfare
mode is the new guiding light of UT,
we do have to give you a warning if
youre planning on playing Warfare
oine, wed really think again, as the
teammate AI is absolutely godawful.
One map we played required you to
rst capture a node in the middle of
the map to lower a bridge, before
driving a tank across it to get to the
enemy core. So, we go down to the
node, we capture it, defend it against
enemies, and turn to watch the bridge,
expecting to see our tank happily
trundling across. But nothing happens.
Just then, we get fragged, the enemies
recapture the node, and the bridge lifts
up again, hampering our progress.
Now, theres nothing wrong with that
what really got our goat was the way
the team AI then decided to get our
tank, drive it up the bridge, and straight
o the edge into the oblivion below!
WHY?!? Later in the game, it just got
worse, as we lowered the bridge again,
only for our tank to just sit there, not
doing anything, while the enemy
happily re-took the node. Its obvious
that oine play was not a priority to
Epic, as very little eort has gone into
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Destroy the core

to win. Simple.
Theres a lot of
strategy to each
Warfare game
If this happens
regularly, you
should see a doctor.
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UT3s maps seem to

have been play-tested
to perfection
Heres the
infamous bridge
of much ipping.
If you see this

juggernaut coming,
wed advise one
thing. Run.
UT3 continued
its balancing.
Online, however, is where Unreal
Tournaments have traditionally shined,
and thankfully, the same is true here.
Warfare maps work much, much better
online with a human team behind you,
and its far too easy to wile away the
hours ghting a digital war. Thankfully,
all the other modes work just as well
online too, and the maps behind them
are simply stunning.
With a huge graphical overhaul, we
always knew UT3 was going look
fantastic, but thankfully, the maps are
practical too. With respawn points
organised in exactly the right places,
and those killer power-ups always in
the middle of a danger zone, UT3s
maps have seemingly been play-tested
to perfection (bar one or two duds),

and this greatly makes up for the
disaster oine.
And while familiarity isnt necessarily
a good thing, in this case, its exactly
what we wanted, as UT3 is every bit as
furious and fast-paced as 2004. Doubletapping D to dive out of the way of a
rocket has never been more fun, and
running at a silky smooth 60 FPS on our
rig, the game was immense even just
watching it was enough to make us
feel tired.
Unfortunately though, we do have
one more piece of bad news for online
UT fans, as Unreal Tournament 3 is
occasionally susceptible to distracting
lag. While this may not be a problem
for those of you on a thick pipe, on a
fairly standard 2MB connection, we
were experiencing lag on some servers
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The rst level sees you

killing your sister,
multiple times.
Controversial...
with 12 people, let alone the full

complement of 32.
But although it may be let down by
a du oine game, and the odd bit of
lag online, UT3 still shines through with
its ultimate playability. While it falls just
short of the lofty standards set by UT
2004, UT3 is still a fantastic multiplayer
shooter just dont buy it if youre really
after a brilliant single-player shooter.
Thats not what its for.
Ian Morris
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Great online maps and modes

Just as fast as before
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Publisher: Microsoft
Developer: Rare
Heritage: Perfect Dark,
Banjo Kazooie
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The pre-mating
course is one of the
rare lowlights.
Beneath the sugary

surface lies a world of
beatings, drugs and vice
Its Party Time! Viva Piata - lled with fun, doo de doo doo
ith its bright, colourful

characters, overly cutesy
design, and animated TV
show running alongside it, you could
be forgiven for thinking Viva Piata had
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CPU, 1GB RAM, 10GB HDD, there lies a world of beatings, drugs
and vice.
GeForce 5900/Radeon
If your piatas are starting to get
9600 +
rowdy, the game encourages you to
beat them down with a shovel, spilling
their sweet-lled guts across the land. If
youre having trouble getting two
piatas to mate, all you need do is dose
both of them up with a romance
sweet, follow them back to their house,
and watch as they do their romance
dance. Were sure weve never heard it

called that before...
Okay, so we may be bending the
truth a bit here, and Viva Piata is
certainly suitable for little Johnny to
play, but our point is youd be wrong
judge this book by its cover, as Viva
Piata is a surprisingly deep, and
enjoyable game.
You bought the farm
At its core, Viva Piata is intrinsically

similar to a farming simulator, like
Harvest Moon. Taking a small patch of
land, and moulding it to your hearts
content, youll immediately begin to
attract piatas to your garden, who are
each looking for certain things if they
GOTTA CATCH EM ALL
Rare breeds addictive as animal crackers

While theres no real objective to Viva Piata, there is a
Pokmon style gotta catch em all theme running throughout.
As you tend to your garden, and get more piatas with resident
status, youll begin to attract rarer piatas getting the right
combination of stu in your garden to attract the rarest takes a
hell of a lot of patience.
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are to become a resident. From

wanting to have eaten a Mousemallow
(another piata), to requiring a certain
amount of daisies in your garden, the
needs of each character are varied and
plentiful, and demand some creative
planning on your part if youre going to
keep all the species happy.
But the more piata you begin to
attract, the harder its going to be,
because, as in real life, not all piatas
get along. Theres a natural food chain
of sorts at work here - your bird piatas
will eat your worms; the fox piatas
have a thing for fresh rabbit, and this
makes keeping the piatas at bay one
of the most challenging aspects of the
game especially when you start to
run out of space.
While its colourful looks may put
some o, Viva Piata is a wonderfully
creative game that anyone, young or
old, will get mileage out of. Beneath its
cutesy appeal lies a game as complex
Ian Morris
as any.
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of the game is the ability
to customise everything.
If you have a child,

theyll be now
saying, OH WOW!
at this screenshot.
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Getting all the Piatas takes forever
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Publisher: Empire
Interactive
Developer: Fireglow
Games
Heritage: Sudden Strike,
Sudden Strike 2
Link: www.reglowgames.
com
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Trench warfare
reminiscent of the
First World War.
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Its a bit like petrol
bombing a model village.
Sudden Strike 3:
Arms For Victory
Only so many soldiers come home
udden? The only thing sudden

about playing this is the
realisation that you are literally
wasting your life. We wont bore you
with the details; a glance at the
accompanying screenshots will tell you
practically everything you need to
know. Yes, its another real time strategy
game, based around the games
industrys perennial crutch, World War
II. What the pictures dont relay is that
WWII seemed to be over quicker than a
game of Sudden Strike 3.
Its not that its particularly blessed
with content - ve scenarios could be

considered miserly its just that each
once can feasibly outlast a day (or
night) of test match cricket. That we
found ourselves still playing it at 7am
should be a recommendation, were it
not for the fact that the preceding
hours were a conveyer belt of
laborious, repetitive grind, eking out
territory inch by inch.
This may be realistic, but its not
exactly thrill-a-minute stu. Strategy on
a massive scale, you will get through
thousands of soldiers, with a message
Now thats just

rubbish parallel
parking, isnt it?
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Strategy on a massive
scale. You will get through
thousands of soldiers
Bonre night in
Streatham high
street was over.
Cloud versus plane who will win this

battle of wills?
popping up each time you send

another thousand to their graves, the
oft-repeated phrase reinforcements
have arrived ultimately becoming a
curse. Eventually, youre even tempted
to attempt actual strategy, although an
arcane interface and dodgy path
nding makes this problematic. As
does the fact that tanks in SS3 travel at
about a tenth the speed of foot
soldiers, something that in our
experience is patently not the case.
Trench foot
As such, arranging a coherent ghting

unit is a largely thankless task, and
gameplay mainly consists of taking
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Graphically its light

years behind
World in Conict
Giant moles had

taken the beach.
OVER LAND AND SEA

Die! Die! Die!
Land
Land
Sea
Air
Tanks are your major weapon, although they are slow and often get lost.
It all looks much

better from high
above. Close up,
soldiers look
cartoonish.
Sudden Strike 3 continued

the higher ground and taking the
trenches one by one, often having rst
cleared them with an aerial strike.
These become available over time, and
due to the Mexican stand o nature of
the gameplay, its perfectly possible to
leave the game running for half an
hour then sit back down and unleash a
surfeit of death from above.
On the battleeld, there is a lot
going on, with medics running around
healing the wounded, and vehicles
dispatching ammo, for instance.
However, with so many soldiers to
command, excursions into macromanagement are extremely rare. And
for such a po-faced game, up close the
troops look vaguely cartoonish,
gambolling about like a latter day
version of the classic Cannon Fodder.
The historic context is presumably
accurate, with the action enabling you
to control the Americans, Russians,
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looks good at least.
British, Japanese and Germans in such

disparate arenas as the beaches of
Normandy and the island of Iwo Jima.
Ultimately, its all fairly abstract though,
as you spend much of the game
clicking on various areas of the map,
attempting to achieve multiple
objectives while becoming frustrated
by the fog of war.
Graphically, Sudden Strike 3: Arms
for Victory is light years behind the likes
of World In Conict, not helped by a
rudimentary strategic map. The
minimal voice acting is risible, and
music is notably absent from the
action: in terms of atmosphere its not
so much Saving Private Ryan as
Shaving Ryans Privates. This is hardcore,
but not in a good way..
Steve Hill
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Repetitive gameplay
Unmanageable action
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Juiced 2:
Hot Import Nights
Can you cope with street

attitude being shoved up
your exhaust?
Publisher: THQ
Developer: Juiced Games
Heritage: Juiced series
Link: www.juiced2hin.com
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Street Race Rule

Number 2: All cars
must be clean,
shiny and metallic.
Arcade racing given another shiny, sideways slant now with added neon.
hatever your thoughts on

street racing and your
neighbour wearing those
blue lights underneath his lowered
Fiesta, the fetish for modding, drifting
and general car fashion has made
video games more exciting. Theres no
denying that Need For Speed and
Burnout have added a level of depth to
racing games which arouses us in a
way that Gran Turismo couldnt. Jeremy
Clarkson maybe, but not thrill seekers
after the brightest, fastest and loudest
racer on the block.
And if thats what you want, the
simplistic arcade thrills of Juiced 2 oer
brainless, hectic races which mostly
occur after 6pm for added atmosphere.
Theres obvious visual parallels with
lms like Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift but,

in reality, Juiced 2 is a simple racer with
added challenge modes which ask you
to bet against a competitor or
complete specic challenges. The
street racing itself feels like a battle and
the handling is strictly arcade based.
The forward/sideways ratio of street
racing is set at 60/40 such is the
obsession with drifting, ripping up
tyres and leaving the right kind of skid
marks. Okay, so the fashion and appeal
Street Race Rule

Number 3: All
exhausts must be
ame enabled.
DNA MOT
for this kind of racing is fading and

other games (Burnout) are better in
terms of game structure, overall
challenge and the options oered to
speed freaks but Juiced 2 is solid and
the online racing and betting is
entertaining.
If you want a simple arcade racer
and can cope with street attitude
being shoved up your exhaust, then
your own hot night of racing pleasure
Richard Melville
is guaranteed.
Because its not just your car that needs stats

Tinkering, painting and tweaking an impressive sports car with decals and
after-market parts are part of all street racing games. Juiced 2 adds Driver
DNA which records the way in which you drive, letting the world know
whether youre slow and safe, fast and furious or just a bit crap when it
comes to corners.
Street Race Rule Number

1: At least 3 cars must
have giant spoilers.
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& big bass. What more
could a badboy want?
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Sounds great
Repetitive challenges
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Was someone
hepped up on
goofballs when this
was made?
Stranger
Odder than Anne Widdecombe in clown makeup
Publisher: Empire
Developer: Fireglow
Games
Heritage: Sudden Strike
Link: www.reglowgames.
com
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128MB 3D card, Windows
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tranger is the polite way of

putting it, frankly. Crazed,
oppressively odd or was
someone hepped up on goofballs
when they made this? are all arguably
more accurate descriptions. Another of
those strategy/roleplaying hybrids
European developers seem so xated
on making, this ones bloodymindedness extends to wilfully
ignoring most of the traditions of either
genre. Even the tutorial feels like its
trying to teach you how to ride a
unicycle with one hand strapped
behind your back and a panda sat on
your head.
Its a stranger-in-a-strange-land
fantasy tale, replete with all the
monsters, goblins and inexplicably
aggressive insect-life to be expected
from such a setting. Unfortunately,

despite the several minutes of
exposition - told as a sequence of
crudely-drawn and hideously voiceovered still images - between each
mission, its remarkably hard to tune
into whats going on. So, you never
perform your tasks with any sense of
purpose you just trudge over to all
the little arrows on the minimap until
the level ends.
Better the Diablo you know
Theres a vague, Diablo-esque

compulsion to kitting out your main
character, and melting down his
unwanted gear into metal that can
then be traded for henchmen. Once
the comically illogical interface is
mastered, Strangers attempts to
THE COLOUR OF MAGIC

Do we have to spell it out for you?
Spellcastings interestingly oddball. Vanquished

foes drop coloured crystals equip your character
with enough of the same crystals and hell be able
to cast certain types of spell. Or mix, say, blue and
green crystals and he can use Cyan spells. The
magickings automatic once youve setup your
aura of choice, but you can buy new spells when
you level up.
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Youll spend an unreasable

amount of time watching
your chaps stand on very
slow moving magical lifts.
It looks oddly like

Speeball II here. Except
with more being
suddenly murdered for
no good reason.
Theres no unit building here instead, you hire henchmen, who

dont accompany you between
levels, annoyingly.
mangle RTS and RPG together become

a little clearer. Equip those two
henchmen with crossbows and keep
them at the back; give this one an
enormo-shield and send him
frontwards... Its the inventory
management of RPGs, with the troop
positioning of RTS. Basic and weird, yes,
but bold, in a way.
Wild diculty spikes (and regular
loading crashes) compound the feeling
of low-budget confusion, unfortunately.
Within the space of a minute it can
jump from throwing a single beetle at
you, to a swarm of giant armoured
men. When faced with yet another
unexpected Defeat screen, summoning
the will to try again when the game
doesnt play fair (or logically) is tricky. So
you probably wont.
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hate outright
Rock-bottom production values

Infuriatingly unintuitive
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Publisher: Eidos
Developer: IO Interactive
Heritage: Hitman
Link: www.kaneandlynch.
com
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2.4 GHz dual core,
1024MB RAM (2048MB
for Vista)
Nvidia Geforce 7800 or
better, or ATI Radeon
X1800 or better.
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ever manage to
successfully take
cover like this - the
games cover
system is awed
beyond belief.
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Kane and Lynch:

Dead Men
Kane and Lynch; not a wrestler, or an angry mob in sight.
s its developed by IO interactive

the team behind the
notoriously stealthy Hitman
series youll forgive us for expecting
something a little dierent from Kane
and Lynch. Whereas its predecessor
was famous for its free-form, stealth
based gameplay, with Kane and Lynch,
that couldnt be further from the truth.
Theres no stealth involved here, at all.
There are no innovative gadgets, or
grizzly ways to strangle your
opponents after sneaking up behind
them. Theres not even a bald chap
with a barcode on his neck. With an
involving plot, an emphasis on gunplay,
and a minimum of decisions to make, it
would seem that Kane and Lynch is
quintessentially the anti-Hitman; a
game which embodies everything that
In the visuals
department, at least,
Kane and Lynch is well
above average.
Pull o a heist, but

dont get too
caught up in the
Resevoir Dogs
mood.
The destructible scenery

makes each shootout that
much more exciting. Gears
of War - take note.
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Hitman wasnt. Sadly, the same is often

true of the gameplay.
We mentioned the plot behind Kane
and Lynch was good, but when we say
good, we mean it in the same way an
Eastenders plot is good its full of
gratuitous swearing, unlikable
characters, and a series of unfortunate
Bipolar killer Lynch

needs his medication to
stay calm
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situations. Kane and Lynch are your

two, everyday, common or garden
psychopaths convicted criminals,
who are together on their way to their
executions, when their police truck is
attacked, and the two are busted free.
Kane is the hard man of the two the
gritty, heartless criminal, with little
respect for life, whereas Lynch is the
bipolar killer-come-good guy, who
needs his medication to stay calm.
The gameplay in Kane and Lynch
is a world away from IOs previous
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This is how you

attack someone
from a distance. AI take note.
If theres one
redeeming area its
the online mode
Kane and Lynch continued
titles, with a rm emphasis on shooting
- and lots of it. But while this isnt
necessarily a bad thing in itself, the
collision detection in Kane and Lynch is
incredibly glitchy, which sometimes
results in your enemies taking multiple
headshots before going down
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Bring back the Kane
The missions themselves are also

disappointingly linear, with you being
lead by the hand through a series of
checkpoints, without having to make
any decisions or choices. While this
certainly isnt good for the gameplay,
wed say it actually harms the storyline
In the course of the story mode, youll

visit many locations around the
world, all of which look gorgeous.
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more having to make moral decisions

as to whether to kill key characters or
not would have made the game all that
more involving - as it stands, with the
game making the choices for you
(which usually involve killing someone),
Kane is as unlikable as ever.
The game slowly becomes more
team based, which forces you to make
use of Kane and Lynchs squad
command system, with incredibly
mixed results. Most of the time, these
controls work well, with your AI
compatriots doing as you tell them, but
on one too many occasions we asked
Lynch to attack someone, and watched
as he ran straight towards them, with
the intention of shooting them point
blank in the face. We know hes a
psychopath, but thats just plain stupid.
However, if theres one area where
Kane and Lynch really redeems itself,
its through the online mode. Known as
Fragile Alliance, the mode tasks a
group of players with robbing a bank pull the heist o successfully, and the
money can be shared between the
victors. However, the twist is that
should you decide to go postal at any
time, and kill your team mates, you can
steal their money, and, should you then
make it out alive, you dont have to
share your cash with anyone else...
With frustrating mechanics,
unlikable characters, and awed
collision detection, Kane and Lynch is a
thoroughly average shooter. While the
storyline can involve at times, the
numerous gameplay problems stop the
game from being anything but
average. Its not worth committing to
death row, but we wouldnt pay full
price for it.
Ian Morris
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The graphics are nice and colourful the language even more so.
Kill a friendly in Fragile Alliance

and youll get a nice big Traitor
tag above your head.
The police look a bit

pale. But wouldnt you,
with two pyschos
bearing down on you?
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Fun, but no Hitman
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Story driven
Good online
Glitchy
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Day of the
Bobteds
Move or Die
Publisher: www.zapdramatic.com
Developer: Zap Dramatic
Price: Free!
free, ash based game, Move or

Die is a graphical, story-driven
adventure, thats probably best
described as a persuasion
simulator. Although if the choice
really was to move, or die, we think
wed be persuaded to move. Telling
the tale of a brother and sister, who
run over the body of an old man on
their way home at night, its up to
you, playing as a hitchhiker who was
asleep in the back in their car, to
persuade them to do the right thing,
by choosing what to say from a list
of options. With better voice acting
than most professionally made
games, and a graphical style that
reminds us of Another World, this is
well worth checking out.
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Shell Blast 3
Publisher: www.vertigogaming.net
Developer: Vertigo Games
Price: $4.95
Publisher: Rob Allen

Developer: http://casualgameplay.com
Price: Free!
ust one of the many fantastic

entries into the fourth casual
games design competition is Day of
the Bobteds, an unusal, if
disappointingly short puzzle game,
which sees you having to destroy a
certain numbers of objects in each
level simply by dropping a marble
(or two) at the start of each puzzle,
and letting gravity do the rest. While
some of the puzzles can be done in
a few seconds, others will have you
scratching your head for a good
while, and with its accurate use of
physics, this was one of the standout
games of the contest. See more
entrants at the link provided.
ith a visual style thats

reminiscent of indie smash
Defcon, and gameplay thats a bit
like Minesweeper Deluxe, Shell Blast
3 is a surprisingly enjoyable indie
game. The basic premise remains
the same nd the bombs by
marking where they are, and putting
a cross where theyre not, but this
time youve got the help of a bomb
detector, which tells you how many
bombs there are in total, across the
row and column it covers. Its an
incredibly challenging game, and
one thats already made our heads
hurt kind of like a deadly Sudoku,
with more bombs and less
competition from businessmen on
the train. And no Carol Vorderman.
Painkiller
Overdose
Goldeneye
2D
Publisher: www.perfectrun.net
Developer: Perfect Run
Price: Free!
Publisher: Dreamcatcher
Developer: Mindware
Price: 19.99
sequel of sorts to 2004s

Painkiller, Overdose is an all out,
balls-to-the-wall shooter with a
minimalistic storyline, and a strong
bent towards action. Starting out life
as a mod, Overdose puts you into
the demon boots of Belial, a halfdemon, half-angel, as he hunts
down Cerberus. With painfully oldschool graphics, and gameplay,
Painkiller is quite a blast from the
past, but still a fun distraction from
games like Crysis. With a decent
enough online mode, and a lengthy
single-player, Painkiller can be quite
enjoyable, but we doubt itll give
UT3 much of a run for its money.
eve been wanting to feature

this one for some time now, as
its the most fun weve had with a
single level... well... ever! Much like
Ronseal, Goldeneye 2D is exactly
what it says on the tin a 2D,
Gameboy-style rendition of the
N64s seminal Goldeneye (or at least
the opening level). Letting you play
through the Dam, and including a
boss battle with Odd Job,
Goldeneye 2D is a load of fun hats
o to the sound guy as well, whos
created the perfect Gameboy-esque
rendition of the Goldeneye theme.
Lots, and lots of fun. Now whos
going to make Crysis 2D?
Great presentation
Great physics
Nice graphically
Fun run-n-gun
Hilarious Concept
Good voice acting
Good puzzles
Devilishly hard
Good online
Great gameplay
Not enough exibility of choice
Plenty of top notch at link
A bit too minesweepery
Awful graphically
We want more!
Persuasion is a
good thing
76
Save the world, play

free games. Winner!
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If only it were longer
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people are not doing, is
starting Gears of War right
Tweak programs
can cause problems,
though were glad
to say rarely.
Tech Support
Weve received so many emails asking for advice, we

thought wed better open up a dedicated help desk.
Send your questions to help.pcgzine@gamerzines.com
Neil Mohr has been

playing with and
playing on PCs for
over a decade
GRINDING GEARS
Ive installed Gears of War on my Vista
PC and after launching the game it just
stops. Ive installed the latest version of
LIVE and my PC has an EVGA NVIDIA
8800 GTX 256MB and 2GB of memory.
install folder itll just crash it seems

people are doing this as theres no desktop
icon. If this isnt your problem there was a
recent Vista update to correct potential
problems, so use the Vista Windows
Update to get this.
> The one big thing many people are

not doing is starting GoW correctly. You
need to run it from the Start Menu >
Games folder, youll nd a GoW icon in
there. If you try and run it directly from its
HIDE YOUR GEAR

Gears of War keeps crashing with the
error: wargame-gw4live.exe has
encountered a problem and needs to
close. It installed ne and even runs for
Big men, love
noting more than
being with other
big men
a few minutes. Ive got an Athlon 64 X2,

2GB of memory and a Radeon X1600
with the latest drivers.
> Word on the internet is this problem
is down to people that use add-on tools to
display on-screen FPS gures, such as ATI
Tray Tools or even using this tool at all. If
you have this or something similar try
disabling it.
NOT SO SUPERFETCH
Im trying to get the best out of my
laptops performance while playing
Crysis and while I like Vista on the
whole I was wondering how to stop
the SuperFetch feature? As I want to try
and reduce all the background tasks to
a minimum. Perhaps I can set-up a
Gaming prole that turns this o?
> SuperFetch is a service that attempts
to preload often used programs into
memory, its low priority so we doubt
youd see any advantage turning it o;
Once Crysis starts itll essentially stop
working. However if you open Notepad,
add the lines below and save this le as
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the trick. Wed also highly recommend this
link for performance tweaking www.
incrysis.com/forums/viewtopic.
php?id=11614. Before using this youll need
to edit the path to Crysis itself to suit your
system:
Ahh DOS scripts,

they bring a tear to
our eyes (because
of the pain).
NET STOP SuperFetch

START /WAIT C:\Program Files\EA
Games\Crysis\Crysis.exe
NET START SuperFetch
CR-CR-CR-CRYSIS
When I insert the Crysis DVD in my new
Lite-On DVD drive it totally freaks out,
clicking loudly for a minute or so. It
ended up taking about ve minutes to
nally spin up and start installation. Is
this normal or is my DVD drive going to
explode? As it turns out my room mate
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Crysis can cause this

clicking sound as it checks
the discs protection areas
No boss, Aztecs still

tied up with techsupport...
has the same problem.

> We understand this is a combination
of two things and can cause read
problems in general. First of all its a
double-layer DVD, this makes it a little
thicker than usual single-sided 4.7GB
DVDs and can cause additional noise.
Secondly the copy protection used in
Crysis can cause this clicking sound as it
checks the protection areas on the disc.
The noise can be exaggerated by dirty
discs or drives not optimised for dual-layer
discs. Wed recommend giving the disc a
good clean with a soft cloth, also for
people with older drives try tracking down
a rmware update. Of course using an
illegal No-DVD crack would eliminate the
problem, but we cant recommend that.
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to DDR2 SODIMM modiles. Ive heard
that dual-channel modules could
speed up the computer, is that true?
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to t together to be dual-channel,
what does that mean? Do they have to
be the same capacity, use ECC, have
same FSB and how about being
double or single sided?
> So many questions! The best
solution is to check the notebooks
manufacturers website and see what
memory conguration it supports or
check www.crucial.com and its Memory
Advisor to see what it recommends. In
general to use DD2 a laptop will need to
support DDR2, its physically dierent
from DDR1 so it has to support one or the
other. Dual-channel does oer a realworld speed increase of around ve to ten
percent. If a laptop oers two SODIMM
slots it should support dual-channel
memory. The SODIMMs you buy need to
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basically buy two identical SODIMMs. ECC
refers to an error correction technology for
servers, this isnt usually supported on
laptops. While the double and singledsided issue is again only related
to desktop memory.
High-end laptops
can make full use of
dual-channel
memory for added
speed!
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